Expert Networking

Duration : 100 hour

Course Content

1. Open Shortest Path First v2 (OSPFv2)

Concept

• Features

• Router ID

• Adjacency States

• Messages

• Network Types

• Designated Router (DR)

• Area concept

• Router Types in Multi Area

• LSA Types

• Area Types

• Inter-area summarization

• External OSPF summarization

• Passive Interface

• OSPF Authentication

• Virtual Link

Lab

1. Single OSPF

   1. in BMA

      1. DR/BDR election

      2. influencing DR election using ospf priority

   2. in Point-to-Point

2. OSPF Authentication

   1. Plain Text

   2. MD5

3. Injecting default route in OSPF

4. OSPF route summarization

   1. at ABR (inter-area routes)

   2. at ASBR (external routes)

5. OSPF timers

6. Multi-area OSPF

7. OSPF area types

   1. Stub area

   2. Totally stub area

   3. Not so stubby area (NSSA)

   4. NSSA stub

   5. Totally NSSA

8. OSPF Loopback

9. OSPF Virtual Link

2. Enhanced Interior Gateway Protocol (EIGRP)

Concept

1. Features

2. Terminology

3. Basic Configuration

4. Authentication MD5

5. Passive Interface

6. Summarization

7. Metric Calculation

8. Load balancing unequal cost paths

Lab

1. EIGRP

2. EIGRP Authentication

3. Injecting default routes in EIGRP

4. EIGRP route summarization

5. EIGRP metric calculation

6. EIGRP unequal cost path load balancing

7. EIGRP timers

8. EIGRP unicast routing

9. EIGRP passive interface

3. IPv6 Routing Protocols

   1. RIPng

   2. OSPFv3

   3. EIGRPv6

4. Route Redistribution & Filtering

   1. Connected

   2. Static

   3. RIP

   4. OSPF

   5. EIGRP

5. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

Concept

1. Features

2. BGP Peerings - eBGP, iBGP

3. Next-hop-self

4. Route-reflector-client

5. Authentication

6. Confederation

7. Path Manipulation

8. BGP Aggregation

9. BGP Communities

10. BGP Peer Group

11. BGP Backdoor

Lab

1. BGP peers

   1. eBGP

      1. directly connected interfaces

      2. indirectly connected / Loopback interfaces

   2. iBGP

      1. directly connected interfaces

      2. indirectly connected / Loopback interfaces

2. BGP next-hop-self

3. BGP route-reflector-client

4. BGP authentication

5. BGP confederation

6. BGP path manipulation

   1. using Weight

   2. using Local Preference

   3. using MED

   4. using AS-PATH

7. BGP aggregation

   1. Both summary and specific route

   2. Summary only

   3. Summary and few specific route (suppress-map)

8. BGP community

   1. no-export

   2. no-advertise

9. BGP peer group

10. BGP backdoor

6. Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)

   1. Terminology

   2. MPLS Label operations

   3. MPLS Core

   4. MPLS L3VPN

      1. with static CE-PE routing

      2. with OSPF CE-PE routing

      3. with EIGRP CE-PE routing

      4. with BGP CE-PE routing

7. Switching

   1. Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) 802.1d

   2. Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) 802.1w

   3. Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) 802.1s

   4. Etherchannel

      1. Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP)

      2. Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)

8. Switch Security

   1. Portfast

   2. Port-Security

   3. BPDU Guard

   4. BPDU filter

   5. Switch Port ANalyser (SPAN) / Remote SPAN

   6. DHCP Snooping

   7. Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI)

   8. Dot1x

   9. Source Guard

9. First Hop Redundancy Protocol

   1. Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

   2. Hot Standby Redundancy Protocol (HSRP)

   3. Global Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP)